Core library authors.
Hands-on learning.
Summer Amsterdam.

JavaScript is #1 on demand programming language in the world with 25 millions of developers behind it. Meet the ones who shape out the now and the future of the prospering nation. June 5-7, 2019.

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Workshops
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General
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500

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Sharing common
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The Event

Amsterdam JSNation is a 2-day event focusing exclusively on JavaScript development. At our conference, inspiring talks meet fresh ideas and good people with summer Amsterdam in the background. We recognize JavaScript development as an art of engineering that is why confernece happens in a former church Rembrand attended. Which is located in the most center of the city next to the best places Amsterdam has to offer.

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This year authors and core teams of:

Node.js
Webpack
Angular
Babel
RX.js
MobX
Cycle
Cypress
Pixi
Babylon
Webdriver.io

Workshops

Kyle Simpson, Node.js, React, Vue, Serverless, GraphQL, TypeScript

Conference day

General and NodeJS halls in unique buildings, afterparty

Hangout day

Museums visit in the morning and JS hangout in the park since lunch

"Nation - a large group of people who share the same language, traditions, and history"

— Cambridge Dictionary

First speakers

Kyle Simpson

You don`t know JS, USA

Author of "You do not know JS" books series. Founder, Teacher, Mentor, JavaScript Theologian, Open-First Developer.

HENRY ZHU

Babel, USA

Maintainer of Babel. On a journey to live out the parallels of digital communities and faith in open source.

TOBIAS KOPPERS

Webpack, Germany

Author of Webpack

ANDRE STALTZ

Open source freelancer, Finland

Author of Cycle.js, RXJS core contributor, xstream, Callbags, Manyverse.

Katie Koschland

Financial Times, UK

NodeJS engineer at Financial Times

Thomas Watson

Elastic, Denmark

Node.js Core Collaborator, open source hacker and Node.js dev at Elastic Search

MINKO GECHEV

Google, USA

Angular core team at Google. Working for more reliable and faster software.

MICHEL WESTSTRATE

Consultant, The Netherlands

Full-stack lead developer, TypeScript expert and an author of MobX.

Razvan Stoenescu

Quasar Framework, Romania

Creator of Quasar Framework which can help you build responsive SPA, SSR, PWA, Hybrid Mobile Apps and Electron Apps, all using the same codebase.

Matteo Collina

NearForm, Italy

Node.js TSC member, PhD, Technical Director @ NearForm, IoT Expert, Consultant, author of Pino and Fastify. Co-author of the book "Node.js Cookbook, Third Edition" edited by Packt.

Ruben Bridgewater

Freelance, Germany

Node.js core collaborator and a freelance software architect consultant. His main emphasis is building powerful and easy to use APIs for scalable and fast applications. He is continuously working with the V8 team and the TC39 committee to improve the developer experience with JavaScript.

GLEB BAHMUTOV

Cypress.io, USA

VP of engineering at Cypress.io, JavaScript ninja, image processing expert, software quality fanatic.

Anna Backs

Codecentric AG, Germany

Anna Backs is a software developer and IT-consultant. She is part of small team building an interactive 3D-control panel for managing the IoT devices in her company's office building. In her free time she walks her dog and drinks coffee.

KRZYSZTOF KOTOWICZ

Google, Switzerland

Web security researcher specialising in discovery and exploitation of client-side vulnerabilities, and a software engineer in the Information Security Engineering team at Google.

CHRISTIAN BROMANN

SauceLabs, Germany

Head of the Webdriver.io project. Testing all the things SauceLabs. Open source & open standards advocate

Christina Zenzens

Codecentric AG, Germany

Christina Zenzes is a consultant and software dev. She is part of a team that is developing an interactive control panel for managing all IoT devices in her company's office building. She likes to grow plants on her balcony, pet cats, cook, and eat.

MAT GROVES

Goodboy Digital, UK

Creative coder, all about Javascript, WebGL and optimisation. Creator of PixiJS.

Jarrod Overson

Shape Security, USA

Jarrod is a Director of Engineering at Shape Security. Frequent speaker on modern web threats and cybercrime and has been quoted by Forbes, the Wall Street Journal, CNET among others. Co-author of O’Reilly’s Developing Web Components, creator of Plato, a static analysis tool for web applications.

Waleed Ashraf

relayr GmbH, Germany

Member @Node.js Foundation & Contributor, working on IoT and open-source tech.

NodeJS

Paulo Lopes

RedHat, Netherlands

10+ years of software development experience writing, rewriting, banging head against the wall, editing and re-editing high-performance web application

Jamie Maria Schouren

DEITY, Netherlands

Jamie Maria is addicted to e-commerce, in love with code and her mind bound to business. Driven by the urge for innovation she fights with the aim to improve the online world around her.

Viktor Turskyi

WebbyLab, Ukraine

CEO and principal architect at WebbyLab company. Open source developer. 15+ years of hands-on experience with more than 60 JavaScript projects completed.

DAVID ROUSSET

Microsoft, Paris

SDE & Evangelist at Microsoft. Author of BabylonJS & VorlonJS. Composing music in a free time.

Christina H Yu

PayPal, USA

Christina is an engineer on the web platform team at PayPal. She mostly works with nodejs, and making developer experience more awesome. Previously she co-founded the startup Shippa, a global logistics platform powered by travelers.

Matthias Dugué

Alwaysdata, France

Tech Evangelist at alwaysdata. He tries to inform about present and future of digital issues. His favorite book always remains «Alice in Wonderland».

Jasper Schulte

GreenHome, The Netherlands

Hacker Founder. During the day CTO of GreenHome, a sustainable scale up from Amsterdam, during the evening I build my own drones and try to do all kind of fun stuff with them.

Slobodan Stojanovic

CloudHorizon, Serbia

Co-author of the book "Serverless applications with Node.js". CTO at CloudHorizon

Fernanda Andrade

Stack Builders, Ecuador

Fernanda Andrade is team lead and consultant at Stack Builders. She has been working in the software development industry for over seven years and has built software for a range of industries across the globe.

Max Gallo

Dazn, UK

A pasta eater biped working at DAZN with hands-on experience as a Full Stack Developer, iOS Developer, and UI/UX Designer. Areas of expertise are JavaScript and Front-End technologies. Likes Functional & Reactive solutions both for programming and architectures. Uses spaces, not tabs.

Your hosts

Floor Drees

Microsoft, The Netherlands

Product Marketing Manager at Microsoft (Azure). Amsterdam Ruby meetup & EuRuKo 2019 organizer. Tons of start-up experience. Studied Design.

Maxim Salnikov

Microsoft, Norway

Maxim Salnikov is an Oslo-based cloud and web front-end geek with a strong passion for the developer community building. He architects and builds complex web applications since the end of the last century, and has extensive experience with all aspects of web platform focusing on the apps managing real-time data from IoT devices, and Progressive Web Apps.

Sabrina Verhage

Tellart, The Netherlands

Sabrina is a technologist at Tellart Amsterdam and co-founder of Creative Coding Amsterdam, a monthly meetup for enthusiasts. As a media artist she created and exhibited several interactive installations and generative art works. She is highly fascinated by the influence of modern technology on society and dedicated to create engaging experiences that enable social interaction and change.

Summertime JS festival

Main hall

NodeJS hall

The 2019 Amsterdam JSNation conference will gather JS pros at Zuiderkerk, a stunning former church located directly in Amsterdam’s city center where Rembrandt painted his famous work The Night Watch.

The NodeJS events will take place in the beautiful Uilenburg synagoge, which is a 5-minute walk away from the main conference venue.

Main
hall

NodeJShall

Rembrandt`s house

All fun is made
with JS

JavaScript has the potential to change lives and the world we live in. So don’t be shy and explore it with us! If you feel like seeing the most beautiful places in Amsterdam, tasting great food and discovering the city’s hidden perks together we organize a museum visit a day after the conference then it is a time for JS picnic in the wonderful, central Vondelpark.

And, of course, the conference wouldn’t be complete without an afterparty! Amsterdam is known for its wild nightlife and all our attendees get an invitation to join in.

JS Performances

This year we initianted Call for JavaScript Artists which allowed to deliver state of the art JS driven afterparty programme of audio visual acts powered with NodeJS, WebGL, WebAudioAPI.

Polyop

WebGL, React, Web Audio API, and Web MIDI API, UK

An electronic music and audiovisual group from London, established by producer Jack Driscoll and visual artist Alex Kempton in 2016. The visuals in their show have been created entirely in Javascript using WebGL. Polyop have developed a spectacular audiovisual show set in an alternate universe. The show follows a mysterious demi-god across the polyhedral-plane, inhabited by strange planets, entities and nomad aliens, to the sound of 90’s techno breakbeat and acid performed live on hardware synthesisers and drum machines.

AliceEffekt — ORCA

Node.js, Japan

AliceEffekt is formed by Devine Lu Linvega, a true digital nomad and a polymath working on a series of experimental tools and applications. Devine has created a set of live coding tools for rapid iteration and creation of rythms based on Node.js. His latest creation: ORCA is a full blown text based sequencer with impressive cappabilities and distinct aesthetic that engulfs the user in a textual fashion rarely seen in live performance.

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